Blind source separation for imaging

Abstract

This work is concerned with the problem of blind source separation and its applications to imaging. We first establish a theoretical result that we stated in our previous article on imaging in diffusive environments. This result is a generalization of separability criteria found in the literature to arbitrary correlated complex-valued sources with additive noise. In a second step, we verify these separability conditions in two propagation regimes frequently encountered in imaging: the speckle regime and the random geometrical optics regime. Finally, we propose a new imaging method based on the blind source separation problem that improves on images obtained with the classical decomposition of the time reversal operator method.